Memorial Day 2007

If I did one thing to honor those in the military this weekend, it was celebrating my right to drink as much as I can. It all started Thursday night, when I planned to have a few drink after a rugby practice, but then decided since I have new hours at work and get to come in an hour later that I would stay out two hours later the night before. That is how this whole adventure started. Then on Friday I ventured out to an all you can drink 3-hour special. Fortunately I was forced to leave that event prematurely when it started to get sloppy and some individuals in the group were quite insistent on me buying rounds of shots. So I left without saying anything to anyone. Then on Saturday night, my uncle was in town and after a dinner with his family the two of us headed up to a special beer bar that serves about 200 different beers. We stayed there enjoying each others company until about 1 in the morning. Then next morning I woke up thinking about my drink adventure for that day. I met up with some friends and we headed over to a bar that I had never been to. After drinking Bass all night I thought that I could handle drinking a Miller Lite but after taking two sips in about 15 minutes, I learned better. So I stayed up long enough to leave that bar just in time to get to another bar that was in the process of closing. After a disagreement with the bouncer I headed home for the night, or rather the rest of the morning. Memorial Day at last. During my drinking exploits, I somehow found enough time when I was sober to plan a house warming / Memorial Day party. So I spent most of the day cooking up pork steak and fruit salad, which I shamelessly pushed on my guests. Although I was exhausted from the four straight days of drinking, the beer still tasted quite good. And of course I stayed up the two hours later than I usually do to make up for the one hour later I get to go into work. All in all it was a fun weekend and it proved I need constant supervision.